(Senior) Controller

(Senior) Controller (m/w/d)

Numbers are your strength and you want to help shape the digital transformation of a leading media company? As a (Senior) Controller for our Sales, you will analyze and manage our economic decisions with a strategic view – and advance our brands with your insights. You can expect an open, collegial team that relies on trust, personal responsibility, and shared success.

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five Essentials are the values that connect us and our compass in our commitment to freedom.

What you will move with us:

• Provide management with clear insights and support strategic decision-making processes through in-depth analyses and derivation of recommendations for action.
• Create budget plans, forecasts, prognoses, reports & ad-hoc analyses.
• You will be in close exchange with your business managers and work in cross-functional teams.
• Calculate business cases and accompany them through to operational implementation.
• Create dashboards with the key drivers of the marketing business and be responsible for complex contribution margin calculations.
• Develop and optimize controlling processes and tools for efficiency improvement and quality assurance.

What you bring:

• You have a completed degree in economics or a comparable qualification.
• You feel at home in controlling and bring relevant professional experience.
• Numbers inspire you – you work structured, think analytically, and act pragmatically.
• You have very good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint and use them routinely for analyzing and presenting complex issues.
• Your knowledge of SAP and Tableau ideally rounds off your profile.
• Convince in your communication with clarity and presence – also in presentations to an audience.
• You have very good German skills (at least C1) and good English skills (at least B2).

What we offer:

• Your discounts: Germany ticket, JobRad, Wellhub (gyms, courses, and personal trainers), various online shops, selection of insurances and VwL subsidy.
• Exceptional campus in the heart of Berlin with modern office spaces, co-working space, and Berlin's coolest rooftop terrace.
• Free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, there is also a free lunch in one of our employee restaurants.
• Never stop learning! We offer you AI workshops and various courses/workshops with certification.
• Diverse health offers for all life situations: from sports courses (Wellhub), to preventive examinations, to professional coaching with renowned partners (PME Family Service).
• Collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working.
• We offer you a permanent position in full-time or near full-time hours, starting immediately.

Axel Springer National Media & Tech is the central pillar for Tech & Product and Central Functions of Axel Springer's German media offerings. We ensure that our strong national brands (e.g., BILD, WELT) are optimally positioned to advance journalism. We are looking for new colleagues who are not dizzy from our pace of change and who want to actively shape the future of media with their own ideas.

Questions and answers about the application process

The most frequent questions and answers can be found in our FAQs: career.axelspringer.com/de/faq

To facilitate readability, we limit ourselves to masculine designations in the text. Nevertheless, diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, worldview, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity.

Information on the severely disabled representation at Axel Springer can be found here: career.axelspringer.com/de/ksbv

Contact person for this position (reference number REF2499H) is: Florian Jänchen #LI-FJ1